Mark Ojakian, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s chief negotiator with state unions over $2 billion in savings and concessions, told reporters this morning that he believes the deal can be reached by next week, before layoff notices are sent to thousands of state employees. Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, responds that the budget votes being pondered […]
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The Blogster just dove into the Blog-o-rama archives to sort out the relationship between veteran Sen. Joe Crisco, D-Woodbridge and the pending budget vote, which can come as soon as early next week. Chris Healy, state GOP chairman, said yesterday that Crisco, in his attempt to win re-election signed a “no new taxes pledge” last […]
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Single mom Kerry Florio, 26, of Norwalk and her 14-month-old son Erik joined activists from throughout the state on Thursday, lobbying lawmakers in the Capitol complex in attempt to push the so-called paid-sick-days law over the finish line in the waning weeks of the Legislature. A unit secretary at Norwalk Hospital, the George Washington […]
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Michael P. Lawlor, the governor’s under secretary for criminal justice policy, is on WNPR’s “Where We Live,” talking about how if the front-line police had a place to send mentally ill rather than into the justice system, many offenders would be eligible for Medicaid, meaning the state would get a 50-percent federal reimbursement. If they’re in prison, […]
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The House moved some bills, the Senate moved some bills. None of it was more than vaguely newsworthy. But the House and Senate got to share the partially diminished limelight with the UConn football and men’s and women’s basketball teams, at the taxpayer’s expense of a session day when the state deficit is between $3.2 and […]
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HARTFORD – As soon as this spring, bicyclists would be allowed to cross the Housatonic Railroad tracks in New Milford’s Sega Meadows Park, under legislation that was unanimously approved Wednesday morning in the House of Representatives. The bill moves next to the Senate. If approved there and signed into law by the governor, […]
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The Government Administration & Elections Committee just gave state newspapers a chance for a little more revenue, when it declined to take up a bill that would have allowed municipalities to put legal notices on their websites rather than pay for newspaper legal ads. It’s a victory for the Connecticut Daily Newspaper Association. The bill […]
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Yep, it’s Husky Day in the Capitol, a time for dorky lawmakers to bask in some athletic glow that, judging by the crew up here, very few ever enjoyed in their youth. Maybe Sen. Len Fasano, R-North Haven, a football star at Yale back in the day, could put it in the right perspective. The full […]
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